MINNEAPOLIS (NTO) - Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak today reminded residents that under his leadership prices of gasoline have fallen over 25% from the $3.19 per gallon gasoline buyers were paying only a couple of months ago to $2.36 at a Sinclair station on Lyndale in South Minneapolis today. Rybak said a 25% savings in the city's gasoline costs can be used to deliver his promised return to levels of Police Department staffing that existed before he decimated it. "I thought I had no chance of pulling that one off" Rybak said referring to his policing promises, "some days you just get lucky."
Ignoring that gas prices are more than twice those found under his predecessor, Rybak says "now we are ready to take on even bigger challenges. He announced a program to bring the leaves back to the area's trees by next spring. Rybak who is facing a strong re-election challenge after what most voters consider a rather lackluster time in office told a campaign rally that if he is re-elected Minneapolis residents can expect to see green leaves returning to the trees by May of 2006. A campaign spokesperson was unsure if the Mayor was referring to real leaves or if he had located the large air freshener he was carrying around town during his last campaign. That air freshener was reported stolen, a crime police investigators didn't have time to investigate due to the current staffing levels. A spokesperson for Police Chief William McManus said he wasn't sure "if the thing was stolen or if the Mayor just misplaced it." "This is the same Mayor whose city owned car rolled away one day because guy just hadn't figured out that you should turn it off when you park it, he certainly doesn't qualify for Mensa." he added, "there is a reason we need to furnish him with a driver." Asked to comment, election opponent Peter McLaughlin said "this Mayor wouldn't recognize success if he saw it, he might as well claim this, its as believable as all of his other claims." Terrell Brown Loring Park REMINDERS: 1. Be civil! Please read the NEW RULES at http://www.e-democracy.org/rules. If you think a member is in violation, contact the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[email protected] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
